This Southwark BOPS (Back Office Planning System) prototype is a proof of concept of integration with the Hackney SMPA (Submit My Planning Application).

It is capable of displaying a list of all applications exposed on the SMPA API and giving some details for each of them:

• summary of proposal
• property details:
  • address
  • property type
  • whether it's a listed building
  • whether it's in a conservation area
• map with property boundaries
• uploaded documents

The following environment variables must be present:

In case you are running under Heroku and need to automatically update the SMPA API key, you can use the script in bin/update-smpa-api-key-on-heroku.sh. It requires some variables to be set:

You're probably interested in adding it to the heroku scheduler addon:

heroku addons:create scheduler:standard
heroku addons:open scheduler

As a regular rails app, running the following line should do the trick:

bundle exec rails s